... and spinners too. Look at Mushtaq's figures for us. And Panesar did pretty well too for a season or two - it wasn't Sussex's fault that his marriage fell apart
I didn't say it was a zenith: I was just thinking back 40 years to 1975 and how poor we were then. It was the year I did my A levels and I was looking forward to a summer spent at the county ground ... and we were basically whipped solidly.
Yes, we were bottom of Division 2 when Grizzly took...
Look how far we've come ...
Forty years ago, when we had one of the worst Sussex sides I can remember, we drew our first two games against Somerset (with one IT Botham batting at number 8) and Leicestershire (where we were 64-7 at stumps). In 1975, we ended up bottom (by some way) - we only won...